Authentic Cretan Cooking Class in a Local's Home in Crete

" If you like to cook and would like to learn how to cook Greek food with a wonderful, down-to-earth teacher, then this is simply the course. It's like standing and cooking with a good friend, where you simultaneously talk about Greek culture, food, ingredients and whatever else you can come up with. What needs to be done is agreed in advance. In 3 hours we made 3 tasty main courses and managed to eat. In addition, I brought some trays of food so my family could taste it too. When I come to Crete again I will definitely cook with Özlem again."

"If you like to cook and would like to learn how to cook Greek food with a wonderful, down-to-earth teacher, then this is simply the course. It's like standing and cooking with a good friend, where you simultaneously talk about Greek culture, food, ingredients and whatever else you can come up with. What needs to be done is agreed in advance. In 3 hours we made 3 tasty main courses and managed to eat. I also got some trays of food with me so my family could taste it too. When I come to Crete again I will definitely cook with Özlem again. (Google Translated)"

"I had an amazing experience with Ozlem. Learning how to make super delicious Cretan food in an easy way was my dream! While cooking she gave me tons of tips about cooking. Her knowledge is out of this universe!! I literally cannot wait to apply them in my kitchen!!"

"Ozlem was an amazing host and teacher. She taught me so many important details that I can use in my daily life, that it migjt take years to search and find through books or internet. We made cery delicious foods and I have never tasted that quality of ingridiens and combinations.. i cannot wait to make those foods by myself and hopefully catch the same level ♥️♥️ thank you Ozlemaki♥️♥️♥️♥️"

"Ozlem provides an amazing Traveling Spoon experience. With her background in both Greek and Turkish cooking, she suggested a sample of six possibilities and we conferred on three. Her cultural and ethnic additions to the conversations during the cooking, deepened my understanding of the Greek countryside, life in Crete and her additional experiences cooking in Turkey. The dishes we worked on were - Boreki (summer Turkish pie without the filo wrapping), avgolemeno- lamb with artichokes, onions, carrots, green almonds and calamari stuffed with prawns. She was also careful with my request for No Chocolate (I’m allergic) and no dessert. Throughout our working together with the preparation, Ozlem took the time to provide other tips that were wonderful recipe additions: how to prepare and stuff the calamari; fillings for stuffed zucchini flowers; preferred spices and how to correctly use a mezzaluna. It felt like I was cooking with an old friend…"

"I have visited Özlem's house and tested her very interesting plates, mezedes and main dishes, sweets, all was amazing. She is from Smirnis and lives in Chania for many years and has a taste of both culinary cultures. Uses many different ingredients, vegetables and meat (and also seafood). I am very glad that I had such an experience in Chania. Thanks a lot Özlem."